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We explore the evolution of halo spins in the cosmic web using a very large sample of dark matter haloes in the $\Lambda$CDM Planck-Millennium N-body simulation. We use the NEXUS+ multiscale formalism to identify the hierarchy of filaments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-19 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Elmo Tempel , Carlos S. Frenk

In the linear theory, the galaxy angular momentum vectors which originate from the initial tidal interactions with surrounding matter distribution intrinsically develop perpendicular alignments with the directions of maximum matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Jounghun Lee , Jun-Sung Moon

We employ a semi-analytical methodology to estimate the dark matter halo spin of HI-rich galaxies in the Arecibo Legacy Fast Alfa Survey and investigate the relationship between halo spin and the proximity of galaxies to cosmic filaments.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-03 Shihong Liu , Yu Rong

The intrinsic alignments of galaxies are recognised as a contaminant to weak gravitational lensing measurements. In this work, we study the alignment of galaxy shapes and spins at low redshift ($z\sim 0.5$) in Horizon-AGN, an…

We investigate the alignment between the spin vectors of galaxy groups and the axes of their nearest cosmic filaments using the TNG300-1 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. By systematically analyzing a large sample of groups, we find a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Wei Wang , Peng Wang , Yu Rong , Hao-da Wang , Xiao-xiao Tang

We investigate the alignment of haloes with the filaments of the cosmic web using an unprecedently large sample of dark matter haloes taken from the P-Millennium $\Lambda$CDM cosmological N-body simulation. We use the state-of-the-art NEXUS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-20 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Elmo Tempel , Bernard J. T. Jones , Steven Rieder , Carlos S. Frenk

We study the alignment of dark matter haloes with the cosmic web characterized by the tidal and velocity shear fields. We focus on the alignment of their shape, angular momentum and peculiar velocities. We use a cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Sergio Contreras , Nelson Padilla

Tidal torque theory suggests that galaxies gain angular momentum in the linear stage of structure formation. Such a theory predicts alignments between the spin of haloes and tidal shear field. However, non-linear evolution and angular…

The tidal torque theory (TTT) predicts that galaxy spins are correlated with the surrounding tidal field, reflecting how angular momentum is acquired during structure formation. We present a new observational test of this prediction using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-05 Jun-Sung Moon , Teppei Okumura

It is known observationally that the major axes of galaxy clusters and their brightest cluster galaxies are roughly aligned with each other. To understand the origin of the alignment, we identify 40 cluster-sized dark matter (DM) haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Taizo Okabe , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masamune Oguri , Sébastien Peirani , Tetsu Kitayama , Shin Sasaki , Yasushi Suto , Christophe Pichon , Yohan Dubois

Galaxies are not distributed randomly throughout space but are instead arranged in an intricate "cosmic web" of filaments and walls surrounding bubble-like voids. There is still no compelling observational evidence of a link between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ignacio Trujillo , Conrado Carretero , Santiago G. Patiri

Using galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) along with haloes from the dark matter only constrained ELUCID (Exploring the Local Universe with the reConstructed Initial Density field) simulation, we examine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo , Peng Wang , Feng Shi

We investigate the spin evolution of dark matter haloes and their dependence on the number of connected filaments from the cosmic web at high redshift (spin-filament relation hereafter). To this purpose, we have simulated $5000$ haloes in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Roberto E. Gonzalez , Joaquin Prieto , Nelson Padilla , Raul Jimenez

Understanding the cold atomic hydrogen gas (HI) within cosmic filaments has the potential to pin down the relationship between the low density gas in the cosmic web and how the galaxies that lie within it grow using this material. We report…

We investigate analytically a large-scale coherence in the orientation of galaxies embedded in two-dimensional sheet-like structures in the frame of the tidal torque theory. Assuming that the galaxy spin and the surrounding matter fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jounghun Lee

Filaments and clusters of the cosmic web have an impact on the properties of galaxies, switching off their star-formation, contributing to the build-up of their stellar mass, and influencing the acquisition of their angular momentum. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Nicola Malavasi , Mathieu Langer , Nabila Aghanim , Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Céline Gouin

Filaments of the cosmic web drive spin acquisition of disc galaxies. The point process of filament-type saddle represent best this environment and can be used to revisit the Tidal Torque Theory in the context of an anisotropic peak (saddle)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Christophe Pichon , Sandrine Codis , Dmitry Pogosyan , Yohan Dubois , Vincent Desjacques , Julien Devriendt

We investigate the impact of the number of filaments connected to the nodes of the cosmic web on the physical properties of their galaxies using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We compare these measurements to the cosmological hydrodynamical…

We study the 3D axis of rotation (3D spin) of 77 HI galaxies from the MIGHTEE-HI Early Science observations, and its relation to the filaments of the cosmic web. For this HI-selected sample, the alignment between the spin axis and the…

The close relationship between mergers and the reorientation of the spin for galaxies and their host dark haloes is investigated using a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation (Horizon-AGN). Through a statistical analysis of merger trees,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Charlotte Welker , Julien Devriendt , Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon , Sébastien Peirani